[Flow] Implementing an REST-Interface with Flow 2.0

[Bastian Waidelich]

Volker Brückner wrote:

Hi Volker,

> at the moment i'm trying to implement some kind of REST-Interface as
> centralized storage for different clients (Smartphone, Win-Client).
> I would like to use Flow 2 because in the next few months i have to
> implement a new TYPO3-based website with an interface to fill the CMS by
> an Windows-Database/Application. So this small REST-Interface should
> give me some practice in working with the Flow Framework.

Good to hear. With Flow 2.0 it will be a lot easier to create REST 
services [1].
I'm currently writing a little tutorial but I still struggle with some 
"best practices" the REST community seems to discuss about.

For instance: What protocol format should be used? For a proper REST 
service one should work with a media type that provides support for 
"HATEOAS" (such as HAL[2], JSON API[3] or OData[4]) but that would 
increase the complexity of a tutorial..

What is your opinion? Or do you already have a requirement for the format?


[1] http://forge.typo3.org/issues/45088
[2] http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html
[3] http://jsonapi.org/
[4] http://www.odata.org/

Best

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